I am "sensitive" to the poor boy's plight. After long periods of just feeling rundown, I was checked by the doctor who ran sensitivity blood tests. It showed my sensitivity, not what they called allergy, was to a number of foods much to the surprise of us both. Wheat gluten was one of them. Eliminating them from my diet brought great results right away, but I miss those foods on the list. (except spinach...)

That list sounds like a missing digestive enzyme ~ ~ I hope you’ve seen a doctor on the corn part. I’ve noticed that numerous “corn products” also have a gluten additive as well, and sometimes for no apparant reason.

Tyler Savage, 11, has been fitted with a tube that allows him to receive controlled food and nutrients straight to his stomach, allowing him the chance to recover from many years of illness and lead a normal lifestyle.

I have a hunch that some of them I’ll be able to reintroduce. I think the major culprit was gluten, which I’ve since found out is genetic. Having eaten it most of my life probably created enough immune system upset that I’ve reacted to the other things. At some point I’m going to try reintroducing them one at a time.

?? What does being in England and not Florida have to do with this. I can't imagine doctors in the US doing anything differently. Perhaps American doctors could find medical treatment to offset the allergies and he could lead a somewhat normal life with medication.

Your symptoms less migraines are similar to the ones I had, mostly an overall feeling of not being well. But add to that, a tendency to gain weight and feeling puffy, and a pain similar to angina, but ruled out by doctors. That all went away but comes back at a gallop if I violate my diet. Doc said I may be able to introduce some of the foods after my system readjusts and I now can have small amounts of regular bread without symptoms, a year later.

Few know more about feeding tubes, their use, and their role, than Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri.

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In a panel on life issues, David Prentice, a scientist and senior fellow for Life Sciences at Family Research Council, who has been an expert witness in testifying before congress about embryonic stem cell research, was joined by Schindler and other pro-life leaders.

Prentice presented a detailed explanation of the theory of stem cell growth and the myths and facts surrounding the use of adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells.

The truth is that stem cells are "difficult to establish" in a dish outside the body, whether they are adult or embryonic, Prentice said, but embryonic stem cells are especially vulnerable to developing tumors when grown in a dish.

"The bottom line is, it is the adult stem cells that are the most promising," Prentice said. "Number one, you don't have to kill the donor, and number two, they work."

Answering a question after his presentation, Prentice said he questions the motivation for more and more resources to be spent on stem cell research despite its apparent lack of results.

"They want money to keep their labs going," Prentice said. "This is a critical moment in human history. We have got to stand up and defend life. We have to speak up for those who don't have a voice."

Photo by Joni B.Hannigan

David A. Prentice, senior fellow for Life Sciences at FRC (L) and Bobby Schindler speak on a panel about Life Issues Sept. 21 in Brandon.

Likewise, Schindler said the time has come to accept that euthanasia has become almost commonplace in America.

"One of the frustrations that we find, even among the pro-life community is that they don't see the seriousness of this situation," Schindler said. "Everything has been about abortion for the past 30 years and I don't think [people] understand how widespread this is occurring in our hospices and our hospitals and other places."

Schindler said he and his family, who make up the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, are seeking to spread awareness about this issue and help people to understand "it's not just about abortion anymore."

Even among Roman Catholics, long known for initiating leadership in the pro-life movement, Schindler said little has been communicated about a recent clarification from the Vatican in Rome explaining a teaching which calls for the administration of nutrition and hydration to people who are in a "so-called vegetative state."

The comment and note, released Sept. 14, said the practice of continuing to provide nutrition and hydration, even to those considered to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS)—the condition that the court argued that Schindler's sister, Terri, had been in before her nutrition and hydration was removed—was with rare exception "morally obligatory."

Schiavo died at a hospice in Pinellas Park March 29, 2005, from dehydration, 13 days after her nutrition and hydration was removed by court order at her husband's request. Her family repeatedly asked to care for her after she suffered from a brain injury following a collapse resulting from unknown circumstances 15 years earlier.

During the 13 days it took her to die, a contentious battle raged in the courts between her parents and her husband. The world's media camped across the street from the hospice and pro-life proponents and right-to-die advocates squared off on the grassy walks.

Today, Schindler said, it is the consensus that as many as 50 percent of PVS patients are said to be "misdiagnosed." Even so, Schindler said, Terri and other disabled persons ought to be treated with dignity.

In a personal interview before his talk, Schindler told Florida Baptist Witness he believes many people still don't understand Terri was disabled and not hooked up to any life-support machines.

I am not yet sure what this effort portends, but they do seem to have one point right. Maybe they can entitle one strip, "When judges order murder." I suspect they won't.

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The Underwire: Why did the National Center for State Courts want to create a series graphic novels? Mary McQueen: The Terri Schiavo case was one of the watershed events where there was a lack of understanding of how much latitude the judge has in making decisions. There is a need for the average person to have a better understanding of the role of courts as it deals with their personal lives and that courts are not only for criminals or big corporations.

We may recall when Dr. King was banned from the school lecture schedule because of un-PC thinking.

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It is regrettable that Roosevelt principal Kathie Danielson refused to allow Dr. Alveda King to speak, because Danielson gave away a rare opportunity to conduct a meaningful debate on the real issue surrounding the so-called abortion controversy.

That issue has nothing to do with whether you are for or against life - as God's living children we are all for life. No, the issue is: Should the government control our most personal and intimate selves - our bodies?

This right-leaning government already dictates upon whom we should bestow our love.

The Terry Schiavo affair [when the government tried to intercede in the decision on whether she should be removed from life support] proved that it wishes to dictate when we should end our lives. King and her sympathizers, with the full support of this government, would dictate to the women of this country when they should give birth. What's next - when we are allowed to sleep and go to the bathroom?

Only by allowing King and her sympathizers to publicly air their draconian viewpoint can we truly realize what they are trying to accomplish: control of each of us down to our heartbeats.

Oh yes, I failed to mention that I lost weight going gluten free, also. I wasn’t overweight by much, but I lost my excess 12 pounds without effort.

Be careful going back on gluten after being off of it. I’ve heard horror stories of people going back on gluten and thinking they are fine for awhile, but then their previous symptoms came back worse than before and are then much more difficult to reverse than they were the first time.

You make a good point. I am tempted to think of it as all over, but have still avoided bread most all of the time. Rye bread and spelt does just fine. We just tend to find foods now which are gluten free, as a matter of how we live. It is neither the problem nor the bother we imagined.

On last month's Terri Dailies, we couldn't avoid noticing how the candidates cleave to principles by how they define Terri's plight.

We see this consistently in most every bashing of the President, as a bookmark to every summary of what is important in the news. It is the libs who remember even if we didn't. Perhaps in his case, it was a mistake of underestimating the enormity of this event. That was part, but moreover, it was a greater mistake in not realizing the impact Terri's plight hangs around the collective leftist neck like an albatross. They are obsessed with it, with wanting to MoveOn, wanting to forget, or minimize, but they just can's shake it. Unfortunately, for Fred Thompson, it was easy for us to predict the media would keep hounding him way beyond what we conservatives perceive as a gaffe to let ride.

Most every day since, it has echoed in all the major bird cage liners. This one is a bit different, coming form the American Spectator...

But if you are going to be the big man on the right, you can't be lazy. Yet you have been so. You have a responsibility to bone up on basic local issues of national import. Any old moron should know, for instance, that you can't go into Florida without having at least thought about what you would say if asked about Terri Schiavo or about the Everglades.

Our country is distorted by others depending upon the prism used, in this case, a Czech one. Here, in an apparent attempt to understand what a conservative is, they shape their view by how the leftists define it, plenty of "Was in Peace", "freedom is slavery" mirroring going on here...

Yet this President Bush is not a good scapegoat. Rather than betraying the right, he has given it virtually everything it craved, from humongous tax cuts to conservative judges. Many of the worst errors were championed by conservative constituencies. Some of the arrogance in foreign policy stems from the armchair warriors of neoconservatism; the ill-fated attempt to "save" the life of the severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo was driven by the Christian right.....................

Terri's plight is the trigger word, a signal to flail into him. There is a reason why, two and a half years later, the lefties cannot let go of Terri's Legacy. They now cue it into most any news organ as a way of defining Fred, whether a leftist or not-so leftist journal.

How long can this go on before Thompson's staff clues him in to the importance of following current events? Although no cable channel could get enough of the Terri Schiavo saga two years ago, Thompson claims he doesn't "remember the details of it." And Everglades drilling is an important issue in Florida -- something one would expect a southern Republican senator to know.

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